Abercromby Professorship of Archaeology is a chair at the University of Edinburgh.
It was endowed in the will of John Abercromby, 5th Baron Abercromby (1841–1924), who left instructions to establish a chair in prehistoric archaeology at the university.
With the new post having been advertised, it was filled for the first time in 1927 by V. Gordon Childe.
[1][2] Abercromby's will set out the focus of the chair and requirements of its holder: they should be knowledgeable of the prehistory of Europe and of the Near East, and that the professor would be actively involved in archaeology research.
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